LEADING OFF: The Arkansas State baseball team will host its final regular season game of the year Tuesday, May 13 at Tomlinson Stadium against No. 11 ranked Ole Miss Rebels. The Red Wolves are looking to knockoff the Rebels for the first time since 2012 when the Red Wolves won a 10-5 contest. That was also the final regular season home game for the Red Wolves that season and the Rebels entered the game ranked No. 22 in the country.

The Red Wolves have already locked up a spot in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament heading into the final week of the regular season. Barring rainouts, Arkansas State can finish no worse than fourth in the league.

The game can be heard on 95.3FM The Ticket/970AM KNEA and on AStateRedWolves.com. Live video will be provided with a paid subscription to the StateZone.

A-STATE/UALR SERIES HISTORY

• Thursday night’s game will be the 111th meeting between the two schools, which makes UALR the second most played opponent in A-State’s history.

• The first meeting occurred during the 1975 season when Arkansas State swept two games in a midweek series by scores of 4-3 and 6-1.

• A-State swept UALR in Jonesboro earlier this season, including a doubleheader victory on March 15.

• Arkansas State has won six straight games against the Trojans in Little Rock.

• The Red Wolves have won 16 out of the last 18 games against the Trojans

• The Red Wolves and Trojans met six times last season with A-State sweeping the opening SBC series in Little Rock by scores of 6-3, 9-7, and 7-5. The Trojans came to Jonesboro for the last SBC series of the season. A-State took the first game 3-2 to increase its winning streak against UALR to 13 games, but the Trojans bounced back to take the final two games 5-4 and 8-1.

OWEN NAMED TO OLSON AWARD WATCH LIST

• Sophomore pitcher David Owen was named to the Gregg Olson “Breakout Player of the Year” watch list.

• Owen is the first Arkansas State player to be named to the award watch list.

• He is one of five Sun Belt players on the list and also just one of 80 players overall.

WHAT A CROWD

• A crowd of 1,143 was on hand on May 13 at Tomlinson Stadium to watch A-State take on No. 11 Ole Miss and set a new record for the largest crowd ever to watch a game at the stadium.

• The previous high was 1,019 in 2008 against Memphis.

RED WOLVES “WEARING” PITCHES

• The Red Wolves have been hit by 73 pitches for this season surpassing last year’s total of 52.

• This year, A-State had a stretch of 12 straight games with a hit by pitch and has had 18 games where it has had multiple HBP.

• The team ranks second in the Sun Belt in total HPB.

A ZUBER STAR

• Freshman Tyler Zuber recorded two saves against Troy to bring his season total to four since taking over the backend duties in the bullpen.

• Zuber has been fantastic in Sun Belt Conference play, sporting a 0.73 ERA in 10 innings in allowing just one run.

SINGLED OUT

• A-State had 12 hits, all singles, in its 8-5 victory over Troy to clinch the series on May 11.

• It was the seventh time this season that A-State has had everyone one of hits in a game be singles.

• It was also the secone time this season that A-State had 12 hits in a game and have them all be singles. A-State also had 12 singles against UALR on March 15 in a victory in that series finale.

TAKING DOWN NO. 2

• A-State defeated No.2 Louisiana-Lafayette 6-4 on May 4. The Ragin’ Cajuns were the highest ranked team to ever play at Tomlinson Stadium and the highest ranked team that A-State has ever defeated in Jonesboro.

• The highest ranked team A-State had defeated was No. 2 Ole Miss in 2008. A-State defeated the Rebels 7-5 in Oxford.

• Since 2003, A-State is 9-19 against ranked opponents at Tomlinson Stadium. Prior to this year’s victory the last home victory over a ranked opponent was during the 2012 season in a 10-5 victory over No. 22 Ole Miss.